Metallic structure for soda-fountains.



F. T. WIBOHERT.

METALLIC STRUCTURE FOR SODA FOUNTAINS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 16, 1912.

1,074,076. Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

l W W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK T. WIECHERT, OF BELLEVUE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE WISE SODA APPARATUS COMPANY, OF BELLEVUE, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

METALLIC STRUCTURE FORSODA-FOUN'IAINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

Original application filed August 24, 1911, Serial No. 645,809. Divided and this application filed December 16, 1912. Serial No. 736,950.

To all whom it may concern Be :it known that I, FRANK T. \Vmcrmn'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bellevue, in the county of Huron and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Structures for Soda-Fountains, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in metallic structures for soda fountains, the present invention relating particularly to metallic frames for syrup container counters particularly designed and adapted for use in connection with metallic frames for soda fountains of the type or class disclosed in my application for Letters Patent for improvements in metallic structures for soda fountains filed August 24th, 1911, Serial No. 645,809, of which this application is a divisional part.

The primary object of the invention is to entirely eliminate wood as a material in such structures and to provide a generally improved metallic structure or frame-work for syrup container counters for securing, supporting, and reinforcing the marble walls thereof whereby a generally improved structure of great strength and durability is provided.

With the above mentioned and other ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts,' hereinafter described, illustrated in oneof its embodiments in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1, 1s a perspective view of a metallic syrup containercounter frame constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2, a similar View, the intermediate and end supporting frames or heads being removed. Fig. 3, a perspective view of one of the supporting strips of the improved counter frame, detached. Fig. 1, a perspective view of the central or intermediate plate detached from the central or intermediate supporting frames or heads. Fig. 5, a perspective view of one of the marble end walls adapted to be fitted into the correspondingly shaped end supporting head or frame of the containercounter. Fig. 6, a perspective view of one of the end supporting frames or heads, de-

tached. Fig. 7, a perspective view of one of the middle or intermediate supporting heads of the improved counter frame.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The improved container-counter frame or structure comprises a metallic front wall 1, and a horizontally extending metallic top wall 2, the latter being adapted to fit over the usual marble counter slab, (not shown) and being provided with an opening 2, through which the pipes may extend upwardly to the drawing stand or pedestal above. The lower marginal edge of the front wall 1, is provided with an inset flanged portion 1*, adapted to rest or be seated upon the upper edge or ledge at the rear of the container-counter receiving opening, particularly shown and described in my said original or parent application hereinbefore referred to, and the front of the top wall 2, is provided with an offset flange 2, to receive and support the upper rear marginal edges of the marble tops or covers of the usual syrup containers (not shown) when the latter are placed in an inclined position in the syrup container-counter in a wellknown and understood manner.

The improved container-counter frame is provided with a pair of middle or intermediate supporting frames 3, having their marginal edges bent over to form periph eral flanges 3*, and a pair of end supporting frames or heads 4, having their marginal edges bent over to form outwardly extending marble protecting peripheral flanges 1. The walls 1, and 2, are secured to the adjacent flanges 3, and 4;, by means of rivets 5. and the marble heads or ends 6, are adapted to be fitted within the peripheral flanges 4,

of the end frames or heads 4, said periph eral flanges 1, corresponding in width to the thickness of the marble heads 6, of the containerecounter so as to support and extend flush with the marginal edges of the marble heads or ends 6, whereby the latter are protected from being chipped or otherwise injured.

The flanged portions 3, of the intermediate supporting frames are connected by means of an intermediate metallic connecting member 7, and the lower portions of the supporting frames or heads 3, and 4,

are provided with metallic bracket members 8, adapted to extender depend Within the container-counter receiving opening at the upper rear portion of the main frame or structure (not shown) said bracket mem- .bers being connected by means of inclined frames or heads 3, and i, and the inclined metallic member 7, and if desired, the marble Walls secured upon the metallic container-counter frame may be insulated by means of strips of heat insulating paper interposed between the marble Walls and the adjacent frame-Work to Which they are attached, thus preventing dampness getting between the metallic frame-Work and the Walls as Well as preventing the latter from becoming extremely cooled from the-inside outwardly and obviating sweating or the precipitation of moisture on said marble Walls.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the operation and advantages-of my invention will be readily understood.

Having thus described one of the embodioraine ments of my invention, What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. In a metallic structure for soda fountains, a container-counter frame comprising flanged polygonal supporting frames, top and lateral Walls mounted thereon, said lateral Wall terminating along its lower marginal edges in an inset flanged portion, and depending bracket members carried by said supporting frames.

2. lln a metallic frame for soda fountains, a container-counter frame made up of longitudinally extending metallic Walls, a plurality of peripherally flan ed polygonal supporting frames connecte to and relnforc- 111g said metallic Walls, dependlng brackets secured to the latter,'and supporting strips interposed between 'and carried by said brackets.

3. ln a metallic frame for soda fountains, a container-counter frame made up of longitudinally extending top and lateral Walls, said lateral wall terminating at its base in an inset longitudinally extending flanged portion and said top wall terminatmg atone side in an inset I longitudinally extending flanged portion, flanged end and intermediate frames secured to said top and lateral Walls, anddepending supporting strips secured to and interposed between said end and intermediate frames.

lln testimony whereof I have aflizred signature in presence of two WltDQS-SQS,

FRANK T. l/VIEECHERT.

Witnesses A. E. Noarnor, C. S SWANN. 

